Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
This Famous Actor Scam - The Lydia Abdelmalek story
01 Feb 2025
Lydia Abdelmalek from Melbourne Australia catfished 2 other women by pretending to be famous soap opera actor Lincoln Lewis
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So this woman is about to pull off this crazy catfishing scheme by pretending to be a famous soap opera actor. Now her name's Lydia and she's around 21 years old. She lives in Melbourne, Australia and she apparently lives with her parents and doesn't have a lot going on. So one day, I guess she gets bored and decides, eh, I'm going to go catfish some people. Might be fun.
So she makes a new Facebook profile. Of course, she doesn't use her own name. Instead, she uses the name of this famous Australian soap opera actor, this guy, Lincoln Lewis. And she makes this page look really authentic, and she starts pretending to be fake Lincoln Lewis. Now at some point, Lydia, as fake Lincoln, sends a friend request to this random woman.
Now we don't know her real name, but we'll just call her Betty. And Betty, she's a nice woman. She's a flight attendant. And by some crazy coincidence, she actually knew the real Lincoln Lewis. Like they grew up in the same area as kids or something. Now, they don't really talk now, now that he's famous, but they used to know each other.
So, of course, Betty accepts the request from this famous guy she knew as a kid. And they start messaging back and forth, sending photos, and Betty has no idea that the person she's talking to is just Lydia catfishing her. And over time, their conversations get more flirty and they're sending adult photos of themselves to each other.
Now, I don't know how Lydia faked nude photos of Lincoln Lewis out of Photoshop, I don't know, but somehow she did. And soon enough, Betty is in a full-blown romantic relationship with fake Lincoln Lewis. And so naturally, of course, at some point, Betty wants to meet up with Lincoln. Like, hey, when can we meet IRL?
So they make plans to meet up, but every time they're about to meet, fake Lincoln cancels at the last minute. And it keeps happening again and again and again. And after it happens enough times, Betty starts getting suspicious. Like, is my boyfriend really Lincoln Lewis? Now remember, Betty and Lincoln grew up in the same area as kids and they used to know each other.
And in fact, they actually still have a mutual friend in common. So Betty reaches out to their mutual friend and gets the real Lincoln Lewis's phone number and she calls him. And the real Lincoln Lewis picks up and Betty's like, hey, have we been dating each other for the last few months? And the real Lincoln is like, no.
And so Betty explains to him what's been going on, that someone friended her on Facebook, pretending to be him, and that now they are in a relationship. And real Lincoln is like, what the ? and he gets so mad that he goes and tweets about it. It has come to my attention that weird people have made Facebook profiles impersonating me and causing a lot of drama. Just deleted Facebook.
Hope this stops. And Betty is also mad and she goes and reports fake Lincoln, aka Lydia, to the police. But unfortunately, police, they don't really do anything. They're like, eh, you got catfished. What do you want us to do? Meanwhile, Lydia knows Betty no longer believes her. But she isn't going to give up. She seems to enjoy catfishing, and she doesn't plan on stopping.
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